Wait a minute! - It seems that here the true "public' interest is the private interest. It is the timber harvester that is providing the public good in this case, and the court, having gotten into bed with the pagan enviro-nazi agenda, is clearly working against the greater good.
I'll answer your question after you tell me who the true "public" is and who is their bona fide legitimate representative.
When I was a duly elected representative of my constituency and was being told in a public meeting by an Earthjustice lowyer that HE represented "The Public," I got a we bit suspicious, to say the least.
I was almost tempted to tell him "My public can whup yer public," but in the end, he litigated against my taxpaying, voting constituents and managed to find a cowardly liberal judge who thought my "Public's" arguments didn't hold water!!!
"The fish come first!" (John Geramandi, former assistant to Bruce Babbit, now elected Insurance Commissioner of CA) This statement from an underling in the clinton administration whose campaign slogan was... "Putting People First!"